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Se aborda la problemática que no tienen al animal humano como eje gravitacional sino al fenómeno que se deriva de ser ese \"primate inquisitivo. La intención es ofrecer un amplio panorama de reflexiones que permitan acotar temas y optar por abordajes desde una gran gama de marcos teóricos y técnicas, a fin de dar respuestas verosímiles a pequeños pero importantes cuestionamientos, sobre la inquietud antropológica.
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John Gower's great poem, the Confessio Amantis, was the first work of English literature translated into any European language. Occasioned by the existence in Spain of fifteenth-century Portuguese and Spanish manuscripts of the Confessio, the nineteen essays brought together here represent new and original approaches to Gower's role in Anglo-Iberian literary relations. They include major studies of the palaeography of the Iberian manuscripts; of the ownership history of the Portuguese Confessio manuscript; of the glosses of Gowerian manuscripts; and of the manuscript of the Yale Confessio Amantis. Other essays situate the translations amidst Anglo-Spanish relations generally in the fourteent...
This book questions the sociocultural dimensions of remembering. It offers an overview of the history and theory of memory studies through the lens of sociology, political science, anthropology, psychology, literature, art and media studies; documenting current international and interdisciplinary memory research in an unprecedented way.
"John Paul Lederach's work in the field of conciliation and mediation is internationally recognized. He has provided consultation, training and direct mediation in a range of situations from the Miskito/Sandinista conflict in Nicaragua to Somalia, Northern Ireland, Tajikistan, and the Philippines. His influential 1997 book Building Peace has become a classic in the discipline. In this book, Lederach poses the question, "How do we transcend the cycles of violence that bewitch our human community while still living in them?" Peacebuilding, in his view, is both a learned skill and an art. Finding this art, he says, requires a worldview shift. Conflict professionals must envision their work as a...
In its narrative scope, The Idealist spans two centuries, covering the 74 years of Coubertin's lifefrom his birth in Pairs in 1863 to his death in Geneva in 1937. It reveals how the transformation of Paris into the capital of modernity helped fire a young man's imaginationand how the drumbeats of war sounded by the German hosts of the 1936 Berlin Olympics spoiled an old man's dreams, and left him bereft of hope for the Movement he created to foster peace among nations.
El mayor de la USAF reconstruye una de las más oscuras y fascinantes etapas del que fue carpintero, jefe de un almacén de aprovisionamiento de caravanas, maestro, forjador e impenitente viajero. Todo un período —de los catorce a los veintiséis años— decisivo para comprender en su justa medida la experiencia humana del Hijo de Dios.